I act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in... - Walt Whitman

"I have said that the soul is not more than the body,And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,"

"Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?"

"Songs of myselfClear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen, Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn."

"Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…"

"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."